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By Bundles, only keyboardist and founding member Mike Ratledge was left from the early Soft Machine line-ups; the other members had all previously been in the jazz-rock band Nucleus. GuitaristAllan Holdsworth's prominent contributions set the album apart from previous Soft Machine recordings,[2] which had not featured a guitarist for seven years, since their debut single.[3]

This is the last studio album featuring Ratledge listed as a full band member.[2] Only two compositions by him are featured, both less than two minutes long.